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Inspiration

We're students and we wanted to make school less painful.

What it does

Gist takes in a PDF and produces a summary of all the key definitions, examples, and dates and provides you with a general overview of the whole document so you can:

Get a better idea of what's important when studying & prioritize
Have a good idea of what's happening in class even when you forget to read your textbook the day before your lecture
Save time taking notes – and spend more time on what matters.... like HACKATHONS!

How we built it

Frontend: Tailwind, Next.Js, React.js, Flask Backend: Langchain, Python, OpenAI API

Challenges we ran into

Learning Tailwind, Next.js, React.js & Langchain from scratch, brainstorming ideas, and lack of sleep (although, for the record, I think we dealt with it pretty well.)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Having fun with friends & being optimistic even when this project has proved to be kinda hard :), choosing a hard project to learn instead of choosing something easy, and CONNECTING EVERYTHING TOGETHER! Also our frontend is kinda hot (totally not saying this as a first-time web developer)

What we learned

Main takeaways: How to speed learn something in 36 hours, make friends, and ask mentors so many questions that they ask you "What's the problem this time?"